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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>2023-01-05 07:15:12 -0500
committerSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>2024-03-26 18:20:23 -0400
commit917dadb09e3114b9db2e22b84c7d84de937b3b33 (patch)
tree3b62159df8a00230098bed4205bbf22237b79e59
parentee84c44b4a0a320f6c733cd3b33d4d43db7a35fc (diff)
nfsd: add some comments to nfsd_file_do_acquire
[ Upstream commit b680cb9b737331aad271feebbedafb865504e234 ] David Howells mentioned that he found this bit of code confusing, so sprinkle in some comments to clarify. Reported-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/nfsd/filecache.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
index ab37b85b72077..50349449a4e52 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
@@ -1094,6 +1094,11 @@ retry:
rcu_read_unlock();
if (nf) {
+ /*
+ * If the nf is on the LRU then it holds an extra reference
+ * that must be put if it's removed. It had better not be
+ * the last one however, since we should hold another.
+ */
if (nfsd_file_lru_remove(nf))
WARN_ON_ONCE(refcount_dec_and_test(&nf->nf_ref));
goto wait_for_construction;